So in three days the Coast Guard will celebrate its 227th anniversary. What was significant was back in 1790 we did not have a United States Navy. I don’t use the term that we are the oldest continuous seagoing service, but sometimes I’m introduced that...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has begun its development of a new defense strategy, and outside observers are atwitter, or should I say, aTwitter. Having been involved in more security strategy efforts than is healthy for any human, I have empathy for those charged with...

CSIS’s Kathleen Hicks on why significant change of Defense Department direction is unlikely to emerge from the forthcoming National Defense Strategy; recommending some tools to help manage the mismatch born of ambitious goals and inevitably limited resources.

Kathleen Hicks, senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and director of the International Security Program, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "A New Authorization for the Use of Military Force."

This open letter calls on Congress to authorize a round of Base Realignment and Closure. The letter represents a bipartisan consensus that Congress should approve the base closures requested as a means of reducing excess military infrastructure.

So just the strategic environment. And if we’ve spent any time together in any sense, you’ve heard me say that, you know, from my perspective, we are very much back in a situation where we’re seeing competition – competition at a much broader scale than we’ve seen...

In the past decade, tensions in Asia have risen as Beijing has become more assertive in maritime disputes with its neighbors and the United States. Although taking place below the threshold of direct military confrontation, China’s assertiveness frequently involves...

It has become fashionable to advocate for arresting NATO expansion and
instead offering countries located between NATO and Russia’s borders
“permanent neutrality” ensconced in a new European security architecture.
The goal of this architecture, its...

Despite a U.S. focus on securing an international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear development for the last several years, the United States lacks a strategy to combat the full range of Iranian activities that threaten the interests of the United States and its allies but...

These are turbulent times for American foreign policy. Nowhere are the challenges facing the United States more evident than in U.S. policy toward Russia. Drawing on scholars across several disciplines and perspectives, CSIS conducted a year-long study that sought to...

On October 28, 2016, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a daylong conference, including senior defense and intelligence policymakers, military leaders, strategists, regional experts, international and industry partners, and others, to discuss...